I was offered N5bn bribe to plan Fubara’s impeachment – Fubara’s CoS

Abdullateef Fowewe

The Chief of Staff to Siminalayi Fubara, the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Edison Ehie, has claimed that a N5 billion bribe attempt aimed at orchestrating the impeachment of his boss was offered to him in 2023.

Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Ehie claimed the bribe was offered to him in exchange for his role in the removal of Fubara from office.

Ehie, who served as the factional speaker of the Rivers Assembly until January 2024, insisted that he still possesses concrete evidence of the bribery attempt, stating that the details are stored on his phone.

He said, “I can also open my phone to show you, in the beginning of October 2023, when they approached me with a bribe of N5 billion. It is here in my phone.

“It was for impeachment. It’s here. I have it and I have printed it and distributed it, incase in their evil imagination, they decide to attack me. I already have a son and a brother.”

Dailyeconomy had earlier reported that the former Head of the Rivers State Civil Service, George Nwaeke, has accused Fubara of orchestrating the bombing of the Rivers State House of Assembly complex in 2023, claiming that the attack was a desperate attempt by Fubara to prevent an impending impeachment effort spearheaded by lawmakers aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.